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Sponsored by the Bitterroot Public Library and The Family of Marjorie A. Crawford Free and open to the public, this year's lecture series will be given by Chapter One Book Store proprietor, Shawn Wathen. Schedule: October 7th, 2014: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky November 4th, 2014: The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell January 13th, 2015: Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West Suggested (but not required) reading The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry February 10th, 2015: Noonday Cemetary by Gustav Herling March 10th, 2014: The Armies by Evelio Rosero April 7th, 2015: City of Angels: Or, the Overcoat of Dr. Freud by Christa Wolf Classes will be held in the basement meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library (west entrance) from 9:30--11:30 a.m. Books are available through the library (limited number) or at Chapter One Book Store. Call 363-5220 or 363-1670 for more information.

Rebecca West was the pen name of Cicily Isabel Andrews, née Fairfield, born in London, England (some sources say Kerry, Ireland), to an Anglo-Irish-Scottish family. She was educated in Edinburgh, Scotland but had to leave school at 16. She went to London to train as an actress, and took her pseudonym from her role in the Henrik Ibsen play Rosmersholm. She became a journalist around 1911, working first for the feminist publications Freewoman and the Clarion, in support of women's right to vote, and later contributing essays and reviews to The New Republic, The New York Herald Tribune, The Statesman, The Daily Telegraph, and many other national newspapers and magazines in the UK and USA. She was at times a foreign correspondent, and wrote social and cultural criticism, book reviews, travel writing, fiction, and nonfiction. In 1918, she published her first novel, The Return of the Soldier. Other works included The Judge (1922), Harriet Hume (1929), The Thinking Reed (1936), The Fountain Overflows (1957), and The Birds Fall Down (1966). After visiting Yugoslavia and the Balkans in 1937, she published the two-volume Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1942). Her reports on the Nuremberg trials following World War II were collected in A Train of Powder (1955). West was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1959. She had a 10-year liaison with H.G. Wells that began in 1913 and produced a son, Anthony West. At age 37, in 1930, she married Henry Maxwell Andrews, a banker.